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<blockquote data-quote="rocfarm" data-source="post: 1765156" data-attributes="member: 42715"><p>B</p><p></p><p>it way more hassle. I like to consider my time worth it. Plus, then cattle need northern feed like silage or oats and coastal.</p><p></p><p>I saw a note to breeders in how to prepare their cattle for auction, once. The note instructed them to put them on show rations 3 to 6 mints before the sale.</p><p></p><p>Worried about the fact that good bulls have calves that need better forage. Mine is good, but not the best. Got about 12 acres of Klein surrounded KR bluestem. Got two crop fields that total about 30 acres that I'm letting go to grass. Was planted in oats in years past and grazed out. Got 40 acres cover, and about 80 of native. Got a guy that said he'd pick me up a 750lb angus bull that can breed for 1.40 per pound. Gonna buy a new bull calf every year. Plan is to break even selling the old bull when it hits about 1200 to 1400 Lbs at the end of second breeding season, and leave the new one out to clean up. Then breeding essentially only the cost of bull upkeep and two bulls are better than one for insurance.</p><p></p><p>When I worked it out on paper, couldn't make AI or over a $2000 bull make sense.</p><p></p><p>Also have another angle as I'm talking to a few people about having about 15000lbs of cow/calves out there from April 15 to June 15 if winter and spring rains are good. Trying to convince them to trade me about 60 days from a good bull in dec/Jan then I'll use my cheapo sale barn angus as a cleanup. Got enough paddocks and watering locations to make it work, I think. Fences are also fine. Just need 20 inches of rain between now and April 1.</p><p></p><p>When we get rain, that Klein can support a lot of aum, and the funny thing is they hit the kr first then only hit the Klein. This is what it looked like after 30 days for recovery about July 14th after having been grazed continuously from feb 1 to June 12 or so year before last. But it was a dream year for rain. Dad's about 5'7".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rocfarm, post: 1765156, member: 42715"] B it way more hassle. I like to consider my time worth it. Plus, then cattle need northern feed like silage or oats and coastal. I saw a note to breeders in how to prepare their cattle for auction, once. The note instructed them to put them on show rations 3 to 6 mints before the sale. Worried about the fact that good bulls have calves that need better forage. Mine is good, but not the best. Got about 12 acres of Klein surrounded KR bluestem. Got two crop fields that total about 30 acres that I’m letting go to grass. Was planted in oats in years past and grazed out. Got 40 acres cover, and about 80 of native. Got a guy that said he’d pick me up a 750lb angus bull that can breed for 1.40 per pound. Gonna buy a new bull calf every year. Plan is to break even selling the old bull when it hits about 1200 to 1400 Lbs at the end of second breeding season, and leave the new one out to clean up. Then breeding essentially only the cost of bull upkeep and two bulls are better than one for insurance. When I worked it out on paper, couldn’t make AI or over a $2000 bull make sense. Also have another angle as I’m talking to a few people about having about 15000lbs of cow/calves out there from April 15 to June 15 if winter and spring rains are good. Trying to convince them to trade me about 60 days from a good bull in dec/Jan then I’ll use my cheapo sale barn angus as a cleanup. Got enough paddocks and watering locations to make it work, I think. Fences are also fine. Just need 20 inches of rain between now and April 1. When we get rain, that Klein can support a lot of aum, and the funny thing is they hit the kr first then only hit the Klein. This is what it looked like after 30 days for recovery about July 14th after having been grazed continuously from feb 1 to June 12 or so year before last. But it was a dream year for rain. Dad’s about 5’7”. [/QUOTE]
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